The INNOVATE call provides up to €200,000 to support consortia of SMEs to deploy new products and demonstrate highly innovative collaborations using the HUBCAP (Digital Innovation Hubs and Collaborative Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems) platform. Funding supports a project of 12 months’ duration.
Sponsoring Agency: HUBCAP
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/30/2021
Size of the Fund: USD $50,000 to $500,000
The INNOVATE call provides up to €200,000 to support consortia of SMEs to deploy new products and demonstrate highly innovative collaborations using the HUBCAP (Digital Innovation Hubs and Collaborative Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems) platform. Funding supports a project of 12 months’ duration.
The main goal of Call #3 INNOVATE is to fund the development and implementation of high innovative and challenging MBD CPS projects, which will become part of the HUBCAP flagship portfolio of success stories, enlarging the value and outreach of the HUBCAP ecosystem, models, and technologies.
How does Call #3 INNOVATE work?
The INNOVATE call will fund 10 innovation projects composed by a consortia of 2–3 SMEs representing at least one provider SME and one adopter SME, that will work towards the development and implementation of highly innovative and challenging MBD CPS solutions, which will become part of the HUBCAP portfolio of success stories. The INNOVATE call projects will have a total duration of 12 months divided in three stages: Design, Develop & Operate, Assess. At the end of each phase, each consortium must deliver a report in which they will show their progress and milestones achieved. HUBCAP will provide technology and business support to assure the highest impact possible for each project. The expected outcome will be 10 innovative Application Experiments (AEs) by European SMEs, demonstrating the value and benefits of HUBCAP MBD CPS technologies in different industry environments.
What will your consortium receive?
• Funding of up to €200k (per consortium)
• Coaching and mentoring support from our DIHs
• Opportunity to connect with other SMEs and organisations from various industries
• Opportunities to access MBD CPS solutions and services provided by specialised entities
• Access to the HUBCAP Community ecosystem
• Opportunity to reach potential new customers
Criteria
• HUBCAP is seeking highly-innovative collaborations of 2-3 SMEs, that will work together to create tools, develop and deploy innovative CPS products and solutions using MBD, with the goal of developing new CPS technologies and enlarging the value and outreach of the HUBCAP Ecosystem.
Beneficiaries Eligibility
The HUBCAP Open Call #3 INNOVATE will fund a consortium composed by two or three elements of Single European mid-caps, SMEs and Micro SMEs as defined in EU law:
Only SMEs complying with the European Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC2 and the SME user guide are eligible. As a summary, the criteria which define an SME are:
• Independent (not linked or owned by another enterprise), in accordance with Recommendation 2003/361/EC.
• Headcount in Annual Work Unit (AWU) less than 250.
• Annual turnover less or equal to €50 million OR annual balance sheet total less or equal to €43 million.
• Has not received, nor would exceed if the project is funded, over 100.000EUR from projects under the I4MS Initiative or Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) Initiative.
In addition, an SME is considered eligible for HUBCAP open call #3 INNOVATE if it complies will ALL the following rules:
• have not been declared bankrupt or have initiated bankruptcy procedures,
• have not convictions for fraudulent behavior, other financial irregularities, unethical or illegal business practices,
• are not under liquidation or an enterprise under difficulty accordingly to the Commission Regulation No 651/2014 art.
• the consortium is composed by at least one provider SME and at least one adopter SME of MBD CPS technology.
For UK applicants: Applicant SMEs from the UK remain eligible for grants and procurement procedures as if the UK were a member state for the entirety of the Horizon 2020 framework programme and previous framework programmes. This also applies for financial support to third parties according to Article 204 FR (cascading grants) and applies for the duration of H2020 projects.
Proposal Eligibility Criteria
Only one proposal will be accepted for funding per Consortia. In the case of a multiple submission, only the last one received (timestamp of the system) will enter into the evaluation process, the rest being declared as non-eligible. If the last submitted proposal is declared not eligible or fails to reach the thresholds of the evaluation, the other proposals submitted earlier will not be considered for evaluation in any case.
The following proposals eligibility criteria also apply:
• Applications must have a clear European dimension, facilitate HUBCAP based innovation and contribute towards European Union digitization, targeting clear economic and societal impact.
• Each Consortia may submit only one (1) proposal at HUBCAP open call #3 INNOVATE. In case of multiple submissions by the same consortium, only the last project proposal submitted will be considered for evaluation.
• Each SME may only participate in one (1) consortium. In case the same SME participates in different consortia and apply different proposals, this will be considered as a disqualifying factor.
• The amount of direct funding that a consortium may receive via HUBCAP Call #3 INNOVATE is up to 200.000EUR.
• The maximum amount of funding a SME can receive from the HUBCAP Programme, I4MS and SAE Initiatives is 100.000EUR.
Proposal Eligibility
Before assigning external evaluators, each proposal eligibility is verified by the consortium. Important eligibility criteria to discard not eligible proposals will be applied. The eligibility criteria check will verify:
• Natural persons and companies that comply with the Commission Recommendation for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) 2003/361/EC,
• Consortium with SMEs based in Member States or H2020 associated countries,
• The consortium is composed by at least one provider SME and at least one adopter SME,
• The New Asset Description document, if the provider(s) SME(s) is not from the HUBCAP ecosystem,
• Signed Declaration of Honour and SME Declaration from each member of the consortium, stipulating that the entities are eligible for financing in line with eligibility rules of H2020, with the possibility for requests for additional documentation if/when required,
• Signed Consortium Declaration of Honour by all consortium members,
• Signed Ethics Self-Assessment Template by all consortium members,
• Signed Justification of Costs Table by all consortium members,
• The application is finalized,
• The application is written in English,
• The existence of the same SME in multiple Consortia under Call #3 INNOVATE.
More information at: https://www.hubcap.eu/calls/innovate
Eligible Countries:
Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
